Favorite Links

Everybody has to have a links page

Humor

	The Dilbert Zone Silicon Valley's favorite comic
	Cockeyed.com An amazing site from a guy with too much time on his hands.
	Get Fuzzy Sachel the dog, Bucky the cat, and their poor owner
	Not My Desk Humor from the Temp point of view. No longer being updated, but it has links to a new humor site, Concerned.
	The Slumbering Lungfish Headquarters of the Lore Sjöberg media empire, which includes The Book of Ratings, Bandwidth Theater, and Lore Brand Comics.
	Silicon Valley Tarot Find out what the cards see in your future!
	OddTodd One man's tale, told in a Flash movie, about unemployment. A site that has grown to have a life of its own.
	Villain Supply The online source for all of your super villain supply needs!
	World RPS The World Rock Paper Scissors Society home page. Some fun stuff in the World RPS Store.
	Homestarrunner.com I haven't quite figured out this site. There is a ton of stuff here that I haven't explored. Mainly I just look at the email to Strong Bad portion, which is pretty funny. Recently featured in Time magazine.
	Oh, The Humanity Featuring the Grass Valley Police Blotter and other minorly humorous items.

Reference

	Thesaurus.org The best online thesaurus I have found.
	The USGS Site See the latest earthquake info, real-time updates.
	Phonespell.org Figure out what words you can make out of your phone number!
	Air Disaster.com Read this before your next flight. QuickTime movies available
	Consumer Reports Read this before you buy your next toaster, or something
	Safety Alerts.com A site listing products recalled in the US. Everything from cars to candy.
	The CIA World Factbook Your tax dollars at work. Better and more up to date than most atlases
	The Straight Dope Answers to questions you didn't know you had
	The Independent System Operator Find out about rolling blackouts and "no touch" days
	The Urban Legend Site Find out about all the silly things people forward to your email account
	The U.S. Post Office Web Site Find that ZIP code or buy stamps online
	The United States Mint See what the deal is with all these different quarters
	Flags of the World You know you have always wondered what Bolivia's flag looked like
	The California Department of Motor Vehicles You can download all their forms
	Bay Area Aircraft Tracking Web Site See live plots of civil and commercial aircraft flying over the Bay Area
	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare brought to you by MIT. Not who you generally associate with the arts, I know...
	The Card Games Web Site Rules to most of the cards games you are likely to run into. When you can't find your copy of "According to Hoyle," go here.

TV, Movies, and other Media

	The Internet Movie Database Movie info from people with way too much time on their hands for people who need to know.
	DVD Review A site obviously dedicated to DVDs. Take a look at their hidden features page. Lots of DVDs have "Easter Eggs" it would seem.
	Screen-Play A great site of movie related trivia games! Think you know movies, try these.
	FilmWise Another great site of movie related trivia games! Some very tricky visual quizzes.
	The Simpsons Archive Listings, season by season, of all the episodes of the Simpsons, with details about each episode.
	The Editing Room "No time to see the latest Hollywood blockbuster? Want to know what to expect before you see a movie? Want to read a mockery of some movie you hated? Have a few minutes to kill?"

Games and Such

	Little Fluffy Industries A collection of links to and reviews of games you can play on the web.
	MAME The arcade emulator project. You can play the actual arcade games from the 70's, 80's, and 90's on your own computer.
	MAME World The largest online resource for MAME related items.
	Firing Squad A place for more hard core PC gamers.
	The Video Game Museum Listings, with pictures, of classic arcade and console video games.

Computer Related

	Trillian An instant messenger front end that lets you connect to AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and IRC at the same time. And it has a better user interface than any of them. (Plus, no ads!)
	MacWindows Where to go when you have to deal with cross platform data issues between Windows and Mac.
	Low End Mac Eventually your new Macintosh Computer will become an old one. Here's a site for the users of earlier generations of Macs.
	Annoyances.org A web site dedicated to dealing with some of the annoying "features" in Microsoft Windows and how to get rid of them.

Militaria

	First World War A online encyclopedia of the First World War
	Moffett Field Museum A site dedicated to the history of Moffett Field Naval Air Station 1933-1994.
	Russian Battlefield A very detailed web site dedicated to the Soviet Union's struggle in WWII.
	Panzerfaust A site about German anti-tank weapons of WWII. Includes comparisons to allied weapons.
	WWII Vehicles A more general site covering the military vehicles used by all countries involved in WWII.
	Achtung Panzer! A site devoted to the development of tanks and other armored fighting vehicles used by Germany in WWII.

Obscure

The Encyclopedia of Arda
Everything you ever wanted to know about Tolkien's Middle Earth

The Tolkien Sarcasm Page
Humor based on too much knowledge of Middle Earth. Especially good is "Saruman's Diary" and "The Complete Movie Version of 'The Lord of the Rings.'"

Douglas Adams
A site devoted to the late author of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

Kibo's Wierd Thingy
The web site of UseNet legend James "Kibo" Perry.

Rate My Kitten
One of the many "rating" web sites on the web, this one at least has adorable kittens.

The Classic Typewriter Page
For people who like or collect old typewriters. Some very interesting facts, pictures, and tales about typewrites of the last century.

Abandoned Places
A web site devoted to abandoned buildings with interesting architecture.

Disturbing Auctions
Dedicated to the strange things people sell on EBay.

This page last updated: 07/28/2006

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